RachelLE AGARD
A TEENAGER who last week pleaded guilty to assaulting another, was yesterday placed on a bond to keep the peace, along with the complainant.
COURT REPORTS
Isha Kemoy Lewis, 19, of 8th Avenue, New Orleans, St Michael, admitted assaulting Miracle Rouse, occasioning her actual bodily harm, on February 16.
She was charged with her 24-year-old sister Khadedra Lewis, of the same address, but the latter denied the allegation.
Prosecutor Constable Kenmore Phillips told the District “A” Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday that Lewis and Rouse were from the same area, but were not on speaking terms. Rouse was outside her house talking with others when the teen walked past her.
They had a conversation that caused Rouse to walk away and go to another location. On her way back home, Lewis slapped her on the left side of her neck. People in the area had to part them.
Lewis told Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant yesterday every time Rouse saw her, “she does trouble me”.
“Every time I pass is a remark, a stink look, a laugh,” she added.
However, Rouse told the court she was standing on the side of the road chatting with two “fellas”.
“We were laughing and she turn around and put she hand in my face. I went to see if I see my father . . . . She mother and sister had to come and pull her off of me,” she said.
But Lewis said she took action after Rouse “come ’round my house keeping a lot of noise.
She threaten me and tell me not to come down by the corner . . . [so] I went to find out. She does always be troubling me”.
The magistrate advised Lewis to “see no evil, hear no evil, do no evil”, adding that the situation was a petty one.
Rouse added they lived in the same district but had never been friends.
Her father said he was only in court to tell Lewis to “keep from ’round my daughter. My daughter don’t trouble nobody. She telling lies”.
Magistrate Cuffy-Sargeant ordered Lewis to pay Rouse $400 in compensation in a month.
Both women were also placed on a bond to keep the peace for a year. If breached, they will have to forfeit $1 500 forthwith or spend two months in jail.
They return on March 25.
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